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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council"
+description: "Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council"
+jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
+legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
+session: "2022"
+identifier: "HB 4604"
+citation: "West Virginia HB 4604 (2022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Education (Higher)"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Ellington"]
+version_count: 3
+action_count: 38
+vote_count: 1
+first_action: "2022-02-09"
+last_action: "2022-04-19"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1454f40-e8fe-4cfc-a541-ce3d5bfc1245"
+source_url: "http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=4604&year=2022&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
+source_hash: "af47cd64d69667aa64b30f099b6c76dff0fcca9f87a0dde60bf608db0348219b"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
+---
+
+# West Virginia HB 4604 (2022) — Relating to abolishing the Workforce Development Initiative Program Advisory Council
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **Enrolled Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4604%20ENR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4604)
+2. **HB4604 S ED AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/legisdocs/chamber/2022/RS/com_amends/HB4604 S ED AMT _1 3-3 adopted.htm)
+3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.legis.state.wv.us/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=HB4604%20INTR.htm&yr=2022&sesstype=RS&i=4604)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Ellington — primary (person)
+- Hamrick — cosponsor (person)
+- Hanna — cosponsor (person)
+- Longanacre — cosponsor (person)
+- Maynor — cosponsor (person)
+- Mazzocchi — cosponsor (person)
+- Smith — cosponsor (person)
+- Statler — cosponsor (person)
+- Tully — cosponsor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-09** Filed for introduction `filing`
+- **2022-02-09** To Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-09** Introduced in House `introduction`
+- **2022-02-09** To House Finance `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-17** Do pass
+- **2022-02-18** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-21** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-21** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-02-22** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
+- **2022-02-22** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-02-22** Passed House (Roll No. 205) `passage`
+- **2022-02-22** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-02-23** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
+- **2022-02-23** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2022-02-23** To Education `referral-committee`
+- **2022-03-03** Reported do pass, with title amendment `committee-passage`
+- **2022-03-04** On 1st reading
+- **2022-03-04** Read 1st time `reading-1`
+- **2022-03-07** On 2nd reading
+- **2022-03-07** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
+- **2022-03-08** On 3rd reading
+- **2022-03-08** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
+- **2022-03-08** Passed Senate with amended title (Roll No. 383) `passage`
+- **2022-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
+- **2022-03-10** House received Senate message
+- **2022-03-10** House concurred in Senate title amendment
+- **2022-03-10** Passed House (Roll No. 468) `passage`
+- **2022-03-10** Communicated to Senate
+- **2022-03-10** Completed legislative action
+- **2022-03-11** House Message received
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/2022 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** To Governor 3/17/22 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-17** To Governor 3/17/22 `executive-receipt`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 - House Journal
+- **2022-03-30** Approved by Governor 3/30/22 `executive-signature`
+- **2022-03-12** Approved by Governor 3/30/2022 - Senate Journal
+- **2022-04-19** Chapter 167, Acts, Regular Session, 2022
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1454f40-e8fe-4cfc-a541-ce3d5bfc1245`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).
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